Type of fast torpedo boat.
A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.
1 He commanded the motor torpedo boat in the flotilla leading the invasion.
2 One of them, 97-year-old Whangaparaoa man Neil Harton, commanded a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat during the invasion.
3 Photo: RNZ Neil Harton, who is now 102, commanded a motor torpedo boat protecting minesweepers clearing a path for the invasion fleet.
4 The boat assigned was a motor torpedo boat and it lay alongside a pier in the afternoon and waited for the commandos to come aboard.
5 Also anchored at Portsmouth was Motor Torpedo Boat 102, which Churchill and Eisenhower used to review the fleet assembled for the D-Day invasion.
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Translations for motor torpedo boat